News Digest Round-up
of news stories from across the EU23.12.15Follow us: | | TweetBELGIUM: Niqab
incident results in 18 month jail sentence(Flanders
News, link): "A court in Brussels has sentenced a 27-year-old
woman to 18 months in prison after she resisted arrest when she
refused to take off her niqab. The wearing of the Muslim full
veil in public is banned in Belgium for security reasons."

FRANCE: Hollande
may fail in bid for emergency powers(The Local, link):
"Opposition MPs in France may scupper government plans
to enshrine controversial emergency security powers in the constitution,
which were to be presented on Wednesday. "

FRANCE: Terrorism:
France 'to scrap plan to strip citizenships' (The Local,
link): "The French president appears to have backtracked
on a flagship plan to strip dual nationals convicted of terrorism
of their French citizenship even if they are born in France-
a move announced in the aftermath of the November terror attacks."

Human behaviour still the biggest threat to company
security (Help Net Security,
link): "Nuix, a security intelligence and information
management technology company, had in-depth conversations with
chief information security officers and directors from Fortune
500 and Fortune 1000 companies about the dynamic nature of security
and how their role is adapting...

"The report found that theres
a greater focus on insider threats since the first report was
conducted in 2014. 71% of respondents reported that they have
an insider threat program or policy, and 14% said that they allocate
40% or more of their budget to insider threats.

Managing incident response and
insider threats has received greater investment in the past year,
said one respondent. Theres been a shift in allocation
toward looking internally, rather than at the perimeter,
added another."

HUNGARY: From
the Charlie Hebdo attack to Hungarys moral panic
(V4 Revue, link): "Since January 2015, the Hungarian
government has been creating an atmosphere of fear against refugees
and migrants that has quickly led to a moral panic, which in
turn has served as justification for strong anti-immigrant measures.
This is the conclusion of a scientific paper recently produced
by two media researchers. V4Revue interviewed Vera Messing, one
of the papers authors."

Following an avalanche of criticism
at home and abroad, the approval of the new law raises the bar
for constitutional court rulings from a simple majority to a
two-thirds majority, while requiring 13 judges to be present
instead of nine previously for the most contentious cases."

SERBIA: More
Journalists Being Attacked in Serbia, Report (Balkan
Insight, link): "A report by the Independent Association
of Journalists of Serbia, NUNS, on Tuesday says more attacks
on journalists in Serbia were reported in 2015 - and too many
cases go unsolved."

Totally unbalanced power(OpenDemocracy,
link): ""I dont want to live in a society
where everyone can be controlled, their data collected and stored,
and then used for whatever purposes private companies want."
Interview."

UK:Resisting police militarisation and state repression(Netpol, link):
"Netpol is delighted to co-host a planning meeting on
21 January with Campaign Against Arms Trade, Lesbians and Gays
Support the Migrants and Stop The Arms Fair exploring resistance
to the militarisation of policing.

The following briefing by Stop the Arms
Fair explains more about next years Security and
Policing 2016 trade body event."

For the first time, the National Archives
and Records Administration has released a detailed list of the
United States potential targets for atomic bombers in the
event of war with the Soviet Union, showing the number and the
variety of targets on its territory, as well as in Eastern Europe
and China."

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